Writing
Highlights from the Collection featuring people writing. Explore the full list here.
Sir Henry Unton
by Unknown artist
circa 1596
NPG 710
King Charles I; Sir Edward Walker
by Unknown artist
circa 1650
NPG 1961
Edward Cocker
after a print by Richard Gaywood
based on a work of 1657
NPG 274
Jonathan Swift
by Charles Jervas
circa 1718
NPG 278
Alexander Pope
studio of Michael Dahl
circa 1727
NPG 4132
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
by Pompeo Batoni
1752-1756
NPG 6180
Samuel Johnson
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1756
NPG 1597
Sir Anthony Panizzi
by George Frederic Watts
circa 1847
NPG 1010
John Timbs
by Thomas John Gullick
engraved 1855
NPG 5011
Charles Dickens
by Herbert Watkins
1858
NPG P301(19)
William Ewart Gladstone
by Harry Furniss
1880s-1900s
NPG 3387
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Harry Furniss
NPG 3518
Queen Victoria
by Mary Helen Carlisle
NPG 2088
Rudyard Kipling
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
NPG 1863
Cecil Day-Lewis
by Frank Ernest Halliday
1936
NPG 6588
Leonard Sidney Woolf
by Vanessa Bell
1940
NPG 4695
Dorothy Hodgkin
by Maggi Hambling
1985
NPG 5797
'Higher Learning' (Kayden Baker)
by Claudia Burton
June 2020
NPG x201500